An analysis of 9/11 and its global economic consequences through an autonomist marxist hermeneutic.
(reposted from gnn.tv)

The movement of people working through alternative networks over the internet and around the world has essentially proven that the official explanation of the September 11 2001 attacks is full of omissions and distortions. And recent polls indicate the 9/11 truth movement is growing, that significant numbers of people know the government at least let the attacks happen. But, again, all evidence proves that it only could’ve been executed as it was if it was orchestrated within the neoconservative faction of the United States government. The 9/11 truth movement, however, suffers from one crucial weakness: its myopic conclusion of the coming “one world government” – a rising New World Order in which America would dominate and permeate all areas of life. Such a conclusion is a remnant of 20th century modernist dystopia. Only a material analysis of the shifting economic conditions of today will provide a more accurate hypothesis, and it involves an integral element of analysis often ignored today — class.

All economic analysis of the last twenty-five years shows a monumental shift of how capitalism operates, including how it balances and maintains its own cycles of crisis. David Harvey, in The New Imperialism, explains how capital disperses overaccumulation around the globe, siphoning it off into regional markets to protect the balance of finance and speculation that is essential. Webster Tarpley, in 911 Synthetic Terror, lists 21 serious crises and panics around the global construct of capital since 1987, and discusses how the hegemony of the dollar has been seriously threatened since the deflation of the dot com boom of the mid-90s, which revealed America’s economic power was based on imaginative speculation. Harvey’s newest book A Brief History of Neoliberalism proves how neoliberal globalization and the fall of the state-capitalist Soviet bloc has shown America’s decline to parallel the rise of new centers of accumulation. The rising threats of capitalist China, India, Iran, South Korea, and even Venezuela show within one or two decades, America will be overshadowed by newly developed capitalist entities.

America isn’t heading towards an even greater definition of power. In fact, it is, for the first time, losing its hegemony as the center of accumulation in the global construct of capital. 9/11 isn’t a sign that America is becoming the police-state, Nazi-esque imperial power of the 21st century: its obvious evidence of the panic of the ruling class. And all historical precedent of false-flag operations show so. Governments execute false-flag operations in period of great economic crises as a pretext for war. But this time it doesn’t work, 9/11 is thus the next step in this path. It fits all the same needs, to resolve the recession and depression every economist has been writing about since 1998. The war on terror has allowed the largest militarization in human history, paying the federal reserve and bourgeois interests trillions of dollars. But the war isn’t working, and the recession isn’t stopping. So what’s wrong?

We’re witnessing the final decline of America as hegemonic capitalist ruler of the world. Every power that rises falls, as Rome and Britain before the US. Based on the way capitalism is involving, capitalism is transforming into a new regime of accumulation. David Harvey has argued since The Condition of Postmodernity that post-fordist neoliberalism has been a transitional stage; we’ve just never been able to deduce yet into what. But authors Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt recently have. In both their works Empire and Multitude, they delineate the emergence of a new Empire, a new regime of accumulation in which national sovereignty declines to a network power which will find many coexisting nodes of capitalist accumulation, threatening all modern notions of state and economy.

Within this context, America, as the last imperialist power of the modern age, is violently resisting its inevitable destruction the only way it has ever known how: by lying to support massive extortion and exploitation, destruction and death, onto the multitude of the proletariat and oppressed peoples. The War on Terror is a frantic last attempt to control the global oil spigot, a necessity to maintain global economic hegemony. And 9/11 is the most recent in a long history of state-sponsored false-flag operations: but this one is a death rattle, capitalist class warfare committed by the most reactionary and authoritarian faction of the national bourgeoisie.

It is truly unfortunate that at the center of the 9/11 truth movement is InfoWars’ laughably simplistic analysis of a “one world government.” It ignores all material and economic study of how capitalism operates, and has operated during similar false-flag operations throughout history. Because it lacks this class analysis, it draws its simplistic conclusions that we’re facing a 1984 police-state as America pushes for an OWG. If we are to bring further respectability to the movement, we must emphasize a serious academic analysis. As well, an autonomist Marxist hermeneutic contains within itself what must be done: it illuminates the contradiction of the system that is owned by those who executed attack, created the framework within which it was commenced, and reaped the benefits of. As long as capitalism exists, the will always be an economic elite creating war and executing its class warfare onto us. And thus the answer isn’t in paleoconservatism as Alex Jones professes, or the liberalism of prominent 9/11 truth spokespeople. We mustn’t address the symptoms, but rather the disease that created the atrocity – and that is capitalism itself.

Ultimately, this blog is masturbation without a proposal for action. And our hermeneutic presents one. It is up to us, the multitude of people exploited and oppressed by the rulers of this Empire, to rise up against the ruling class. We mustn’t base our new construction of society on any of the old, but look to new methods of networking and organization available in our technologically advanced times. We must organize autonomously and horizontally, both in our praxis of resistance today and our blueprint for society tomorrow. This author calls himself a communist, and as such participates in RAAN and other radical projects. But you must find your own definition, your own self-fulfillment in ways to struggle against coming Empire.